Opinion: Saving Private Data Collection

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I ... I ... I ... to be an essay in his last is a federal judge ruled ... that the ... season the data ... collection program ... is constitutional ... I've got editorial page editor Paul GBO staying with me now at all ... so we got with federal judge says it's illegal become another federal judge says it's it's it's legal which is this for my sins I've read both of those ... the both of those opinions ... I think that the poly opinion is more impressive ... as a careful ... excavation of law this is a wise as a solution ... that's the one that's right that the association issued on Friday and to ... make a necessary corrective to jus Leon's ... I did Richard Leon's ... decision earlier in December which is a lot of ... florid language almost Orwellian and things like that which ... we have a legal basis to make for good headlines but they're not that they're not really ... based in law ... what Polly foundries poly life on a Friday is that in fact ... the president to Smith vs Maryland ... that is controlled in these kinds of searches ... are still relevant ... not irrelevant ... and that therefore it is not unconstitutional ... a quote from Judge Paul agita he also wrote ... a decent one tool only works because it collects everything ... without all the data points that government cannot be certain it is connected the pertinent ... ones can hours ... I'm in the program works because it isn't part of individuals the issue to feel better about that on that it will not ... just looking at you when you that that that that the opponents of this essentially ... to offset what you're getting your getting everything therefore you should be skewed because it's so interested in fact ... because it cut like so much ... in many ways is less interest ... write it doesn't go into you wore telephone on my ... profile if he can cook of course it could be abused like any government program and that's one of the fears that the ... critics offer ... but ... because it doesn't do that to just relax essentially ... this ... number called ... the number that did call put a call that sort of was that the amount of time spent ... it allows you to connect the dots in a way that allows the government ... and National Security Agency and was ... canceled off to the FBI ... if the FBI this EIA have somebody they wanna listen to ... even further ... than many of core want to go deeper ... so I don't I personally and not as alarmed about this I'm much more alarmed the fact that it ... would stop this ... I think it would have been dangerous repercussions national security ... as judge Pauley made clear in the opening of his opinion which ... talked at length about the case of one of the nine eleven hijackers who ... we had to ALM we knew he'd call ... I he was living in sin you we thought he was overseas ... had we known he was calling from San Diego ... when I presented the plot about thirty seconds left to Edward Snowden who picked all of this ruckus off says his mission is Ardi been accomplished because were having in Japan these issues ... set a good thing ... well I don't mind the debate on these issues but I would've preferred it come about in other ways if he wants to if he wanted to pay them to and should ... position it on a conference ... and said ... what kind of groove deep concerns about this ... and it kicked off a debate in a legal way ... if you really want to face ... to to be responsible for what you get ... what I do is return from exile in in Russia where he's being protected ... and face the the the charges that the government has played against ... that would do ... that would be a killer ... having the courage of his